Lead Product Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Dynamic Creatures | Cambridge, MA

Dynamic Creatures is hiring a hands-on security engineer to help protect our software and connected products. You’ll shape how our robots connect securely to networks, the internet, and the services around them.

🏢 About Dynamic Creatures

We’re looking for someone who has personally secured an IoT product and its SDKs. Your background could be in connected cameras, smart-home devices, consumer electronics, industrial IoT, or robotics.

🎯 The Role

You’ll shape how our robots connect securely to networks, the internet, and the services around them.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Own product security across embedded software, SDKs, APIs, and device-to-cloud communications.
• Design and implement secure authentication, authorization, encryption, and credential management.
• Review software and system architecture, identify vulnerabilities, and work with engineers to resolve them.
• Secure device provisioning, software updates, and third-party dependencies.
• Build practical security checks into development and release processes.
• Help investigate and respond to product security issues.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience securing internet-connected physical products through development, launch, and operation.
• Direct experience securing SDKs, including how developers authenticate, manage credentials, and access product capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of networking, internet protocols, and secure communications.
• Experience with embedded or firmware security and the cloud services supporting connected devices.
• The ability to review code, implement protections, and explain security decisions clearly.
• A practical approach to balancing security, reliability, and product usability.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Robotics experience is welcome, but it isn’t required. We’re most interested in what you’ve personally built, secured, tested, and improved.

🎁 Benefits

This role is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility